I am posting a paper that my colleague Michael Middleton and I presented last fall at a conference at George Washington University. The paper provides a systematic analysis of the origins and use of "cyber Pearl Harbor" as an analogy and metaphor by various actors in the U.S. cyber security debate. The full citation and link to the PDF: Sean Lawson and Michael K. Middleton, … [Read more...] about Cyber Pearl Harbor: A 25 Year Retrospective
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Trump’s Cybersecurity Plan? More of the Same
There has been a lot of buzz about President Trump's forthcoming executive order on federal cybersecurity. There's just one problem with the key provision of that order: It's already been done. From CFR's Net Politics blog: In briefings late January, President Trump promised that he would hold agency heads accountable for failures in cybersecurity. He plans to issue an … [Read more...] about Trump’s Cybersecurity Plan? More of the Same
Cybersecurity: What Thucydides Can Still Teach Us
Over at the Council on Foreign Relations' Net Politics blog, Ben Buchanan, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Cybersecurity Project, provides a summary of his forthcoming book, The Cybersecurity Dilemma. The TL;DR is that Dr. Buchanan has applied to cybersecurity the concept of the security dilemma, which was identified as far back as the writings of Thucydides. … [Read more...] about Cybersecurity: What Thucydides Can Still Teach Us
Germany Sees Fake News as a Cybersecurity Threat
On Tuesday, Politico's Morning Cybersecurity brief had a couple interesting items related to cybersecurity and fake news. We're seeing an increasing number of stories out of Germany, France, the UK, and elsewhere about the potential threat of cyber attacks similar to the ones witnessed during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. From Politico: FAKE NEWS: CYBER THREAT? — From … [Read more...] about Germany Sees Fake News as a Cybersecurity Threat
Testing Tweet Blender
I'm testing out a new plugin for WordPress called Tweet Blender. … [Read more...] about Testing Tweet Blender